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SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society of London. — The Annual General 

 Meeting was held on Wednesday evening, January 19th, in the 

 rooms of this Society at 11, Ciiandos Street, Cavendish Square. The 

 following were elected as officers and members of the Council for the 

 Session 1910-11:— President, Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D.; Treasurer, 

 Mr. A. H. Jones ; Secretaries, Mr. H. Eowland-Brown, M.A., and 

 Commander J. J. Walker, M.A., E.N., F.L.S.; Librarian, Mr. G. C. 

 Champion, F.Z.S. Other members of the Council : — Professor 

 T. Hudson-Beare, B.Sc, F.E.S.E., Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, P.L.S., 

 Dr. M. Burr, D.Sc, F.L.S., Mr. H. St. J. Donisthorpe, F.Z.S., Mr. 

 A. Harrison, F.L.S., F.C.S., Mr. Selwyn Image, M.A., Dr. K. Jordan, 

 Ph.D., Mr. H. Main, B.Sc, Mr. A. Sich, Mr. Henry J. Turner, Mr. 

 Eowland E. Turner, and Mr. J. W. Tutt. — The President, in his 

 Address, after congratulating the Society on its continued prosperity, 

 and paying a tribute to the memory of distinguished entomologists 

 who had died during the past year, referred to the appointment by 

 the Colonial Office of a Committee for Entomological Eesearch, 

 which, he hoped, might be taken as evidence of increased recognition 

 by public authorities of the Value of scientific advice and co-operation. 

 The recent Darwin commemoration at Cambridge and the approach- 

 ing International Congress of Entomology at Brussels were then 

 noticed ; and the Address proceeded to deal with the special subject 

 of the plume-scales of the Pierinse, or "white butterflies." The 

 President advocated the interpretation of these structures as a scent- 

 distributing apparatus, and gave a detailed account of their structure 

 and distribution, pointing out their diagnostic and taxonomic value, 

 and indicating their bearing on questions of bionomic importance. 

 Mr. C. O. Waterhouse and Professor E. Meldola, F.E.S., having pro- 

 posed a vote of thanks to the President for his Address and his 

 services, which was carried unanimously, Mr. W. E. Sharp, seconded 

 by Mr. Hamilton H. Druce, proposed a similar vote of thanks to the 

 other officers of the Society. This also was carried nem. con., the 

 Treasurer and the Secretaries replying. — H. Eowland-Brown, 

 M.A., Hon. Secretary. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — December 9th, 1909. — Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in 

 the chair. — Captain Cardew, E.A., of Wimbledon, and Mr. P. A. 

 Tautz, of North Audley Street, W., were elected members. — Mr. Sich 

 exhibited specimens of Gelechia hermannella in illustration of his 

 paper. — Mr. Turner, male and female specimens of the rare tailed 

 moth, Eudcemonia bracliyura, from Sierra Leone. — Mr. Edwards, a 

 box of exotic Hemiptera, among which was the remarkable Hetero- 

 pteron, Macrocercea grandis, from Tennasserim. — Mr. J. Piatt Barrett, 

 pupae of Hyles euphorhice, found by him in Sicily, and an immature 

 form of a mole-cricket from Messina. — Dr. Hodgson, the most striking 

 forms of Anthrocera, taken or bred by him this year, including dwarf 

 A. trifolii and curiously marked examples of A. hippocrepidis and A. 

 filijyend^ilce. — Mr. Barnett, dark forms of Hybernia boreata and of 

 Oporabia dilutaria from West Wickham and Wimbledon respectively. 

 ■ — Mr. Eobert Adkin, series oi Agriades corydon, females, from East- 



